1853.] Notices and Descriptions of various Reptiles. 653 



form continuous lines posteriorly. Terminal half of tail whitish. 

 Arms and hind-limbs speckled with white posteriorly. Length of 

 specimen 5i in., of which the tail measures 3| in. Hab. Rungpore ? 



Lissonota, nobis, n. g. Form of Eitprepes, but more slender, 

 covered with very smooth minute uncarinated scales. Head short, 

 flat, subtriangular as viewed from above, broader than high, with ob- 

 tusely pointed muzzle. Tympanum distinct, roundish. Lower eye- 

 lid scaly. Palatal incision slight, placed far back. Tongue scarcely 

 notched. Teeth very minute. Frontal shield pentagonal, subtri- 

 angular, broad to the front, and elongated to an obtuse point pos- 

 teriorly ; the supra-orbitals nearly meeting across. Inter-nasal 

 hexangular, somewhat fan-shaped. Eronti-nasals small. Eronti- 

 parietals two, contiguous. Inter-parietal squarish or diamond-shaped. 

 Limbs well developed. Toes 5-5, the palms and the heels (or exte- 

 rior portion of soles) granular. Infra-caudal scales larger than those 

 of the body ; and two large triangular prae-anal scales. 



L. maculata,* nobis, n. s. Colour (in spirit) greyish olive-green, 

 with a double row of irregular dark spots along the nape and back, 

 and a median line of the same along the tail. On each side a dark 

 band is continued throughout, commencing at the nostrils; and 

 beneath this is a narrow pale streak, then a narrow dark one, and 

 finally a few dark spots on the sides of the throat and belly. Upper 

 surface of the limbs variegated throughout. Lower-parts albescent- 

 greenish. Length of specimen, — head and body 1| in., and tail 

 probably about the same, but the tip is wanting. Eore-limbs f in. ; 

 hind limbs || in. : distance apart of fore and hind limbs 1 in. Erom 

 Asam ; Col. Jenkins. 



Ophiops Jeedoet, nobis, n. s. A typical species, dark bronze 

 above, black-spotted, with two obscure broad dorsal streaks ; below 

 white throughout. Length of head and body 1\ in. ; of tail 2^ in. ; 

 of hind-limb, to extremity of longest toe, f in. Eemoral pores 7 or 

 8. Shields of head plaited longitudinally. M Procured at Mhow, 

 in pasture land." T. C. Jerdon, Esq.f 



* This species would seem affined to Plestiodon sinensis, Gray. 



f Since Mr. Jerdon's paper on the reptiles of S. India was ready for publi- 

 cation. With reference to that paper, p. 468 ante, he desires me to state that 

 *' the only specimen of Homonota fascjata was taken from the mouth of a 

 snake, in grassy land, near Jaulnah." 



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